Invalid&#39;s table



J. JAKUBOWSKI.

IINVALIDS TABLE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 1 0, 1919.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

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JOHN JAKUBOWSKI, OF WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

INVALIDS TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1920.

Application filed May 10, 1919. Serial No. 296,229.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN JAKUBOWSKI, a citizen of Poland, residing at Vebster, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Invalids Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in portable tables, particularly adapted for invalids use and capable of being connected with the frame of an ordinary bed or like support.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device which may be attached to the side frame of an ordinary bed, and which may be extended so as to project over the surface of the bed, and used by a person recumbent on the same, or when it is not desired, it may be compactly and neatly folded for storage or transportation.

A further object is to provide a device comprised of few and simple parts which may be cheaply manufactured and readily extended or folded at will.

A still further object is to provide means whereby the supporting elements may be attached to bases independently of the bed, so as to be used without connection therewith as may be convenient.

These and other like objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevational view showing an invalids table made in accordance with the invention, parts being shown in an extended position.

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same the parts being folded for storage or transportation.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top plan view of the table.

Fig. 41 is another fragmentary view showing the device as attached to independent bases, and

Fig. 5 is a partial side elevational view of the same.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates a flat strip or plate having a lower cylindrical end 11, upon which is slidably fitted a block 12, the same being elongated and containing an open slot or recess 13, while threaded upon the lower extending end 11 is a wing clamp nut let, by means of which the block 12 may be pressed upwardly against an extending spur 15 formed with the strip 10.

The lower flat surface of the lug or extension 15 is adapted to make contact with one of the elements 17 of a longitudinally disposed bar, the other element 18 being receivable within the slot 13 of the sliding block 12, so that the block may be firmly se cured to the element 18 by the nut 14. These angle elements 17 and 18 may constitute one of the side frames of an ordinary metallic bed, or a short section of a rolled angle bar, which in turn may be supported in recesses formed in the upper edges of a pair of roctangular blocks 19, adapted to rest upon any relatively level surface, as the floor of a room, so that the table may be used with or without connection with a bed.

Formed in the upper part of the strip 10 is an elongated slot 20 through which passes a bolt 21 provided with a wing clamp nut 22, the bolt having a head 23, and emgageable on the bolt is a vertical strip 25, which, due to the slot connection, may be raised or lowered to suit circumstances, the extreme upper end of the strip element 25 is beveled, as at 26, and has secured upon its side one of the leaf elements, 27, of a hinge, the other element 28 of which is secured to a correspondingly beveled end 29 of another strip 30, all of the several strips being relatively narrow and of uniform thickness. An offset 31 is formed with the hinge element 27 so as to permit the strips to be folded side by side as indicated best in Fig. 2.

111 order to support the strip 30, when extended at right angles to the strip 25, a brace bar 35 is secured by the hinge element 36, the other element 37 of which is fixed upon the side of the strip 25 opposite to the hinge element 27, and is adapted to make contact with the interior beveled surface of a transverse stop 38, on the lower side of the strip 30.

Extending out from the stop 38 is an eye 39, to which may be received the hook 4:0 pivoted at 41 on the outer side of the diagonally disposed brace bar 15. Thus when the strip 30 is extended horizontally, at a right angle, to the normally vertical strip 25, the brace 35 may be secured therewith, so as to hold the same in a firm and secure manner.

Disposed upon the upper surface of the horizontal strip 30, is a rectangular plate 44:, the same acting as a table top when in an extended position, but which may be folded between the strips and 30, when the device is not in operation, as best shown in Fig. 2.

Secured upon the rear edge of the table plate a l, is a raised cleat 45, and engageable within the recess in the table adjacent to the cleat 45, is a wire loop 4.6, having rentrantly downturned elements 47, turned oppositely outward as at 4K8, and then downwardly forming a pair of oppositely disposed loops 49, merging into a vertical element 50, the same being adapted to receive and retain papers, manuscripts, books and the like, in such manner that the same may be readily obtained by a person in a recumbent or sitting position for which the table is designed.

It will be apparent that if the device is attached to the frame of a bed that it may be removed longitudinally along the frame, so as to reach any desired'position over the surface of a bed, or if secured to the supports 19, the same may be moved as readily as a chair or other piece of furniture.

When the device is not required for use, the table may be folded into a compact space as shown, and when extended for use, provides a relatively firm and secure support for miscellaneous articles likely to be used by an invalid.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a portable invalid folding table of the character described the combination with a pair of recessed rectangular blocks adapted to rest upon a floor, angle elements supported in the recesses of said blocks, a slotted fiat strip having a lower cylindrical screw threaded end, a slotted block sliding on said end a wing clamp nut on said end, an extending spur on said strip, against which said block is adapted to be pressed by the operation of said nut and adapted to make contact with one of said angle elements, a vertical strip adapted to be adjustably secured to said flat strip, a means for locking both strips in their relative adjusted positions, a horizontal strip, a hinge connection between the ends of said vertical and horizontal strips, a brace-bar hinged to said vertical strip, a transverse stop on the lower side of said horizontal strip against which the free end of said brace-bar rests, an eye in said stop and a hook pivoted to said brace-bar adapted to engage in said eye and a rectangular plate upon the upper face of said horizontal strip constituting a table top when in an extended position and adapted to be folded between said horizontal and vertical strips when the table is to be folded, said table top adapted to receive a paper holding means, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

his JOHN JAKUBO'l/VSKI.

mark Wltness to mark:

TELESPHORE LEBOEUI. 

